Re: Looking for USENET client recommendations for Windows

On 1/14/2025 5:55 PM, William Hyde wrote:

Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 1/13/2025 9:12 PM, Titus G wrote:

On 14/01/25 09:50, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 1/13/2025 2:28 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

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Thunderbird on Windows 11 Pro is what I use.

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I'm also usng thunderbird. I am not impressed.
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I have used Thunderbird (on Linux), for ever so I don't know what I am
missing or what is wrong with it and am curious regarding additional
features you would require to be impressed. Thank you.

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For the longest time I used the Google groups interface, which
sucked, but had very high availability. I also used xnews, but
that no longer seems to run.

 I also used Google groups, too lazy to investigate anything else.
 But when they shut that down it took me about twenty minutes to get the seamonkey groups page going.  Speaking as a cranky old guy who can get very annoyed with software choiceI was on GG to the bitter end, but switched to Thy            s, I have to say that it was a painless experience.
 I have not really explored its possibilities, barring the kill file which I use to make groups other than this one more readable.
 Though a surprising number of trolls vanished with google, unable to figure out how to get back to these groups.
 

I was with GG until the bitter end, but switched to E-S/Thunderbird
quite soon after.  Google Groups, and Deja before it, had the feature that I could access it from any computer that had an internet
connection and a browser. Later I could use my mobile phone.
I did briefly use Outlook's built-in newsreader. It might have been Outlook Express.  Sp T-Bird isn't that strange. BITD, being able to
read messages when off-line was handy, especially if one only had '
one phone line, and used dial-up.  Not so much once I got a broadband link.
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